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Chicago, St. Louis, Columbus, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, 

Philadelphia, New York and Boston. 




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Pleasant Homes, Business Locations, 

CHEAP LANDS, 
J\fcLruxfcLctuurtrig Sites, Etc. 



As this Guide will undoubtedly reach the hands of many people 
who contemplate changing their location, we desire to call especial 
attention to a section of country penetrated by the B. & O. R. R. 
which offers unequaled advantages for every branch of industry. 

The States of West Virginia and Maryland and the Shenandoah 
Valley in Virginia are attracting the attention of people in all sections 
of the United States, Canada and Europe. During the year 1888 
there was a large influx of northern and western people into this 
district ; some engaging in agricultural pursuits, others in manufac- 
turing and other enterprises. 

Considering the vast undeveloped resources, church privileges, 
educational advantages, fertility of soil, values of land, the healthful 
climate, convenience to the National Capital and the best markets 
in the country, no section of the United States offers greater induce- 
ments to persons seeking prosperous and pleasant homes than that 
tributary to the B. & O., east of the Ohio River. 

The B. & O. R. R. reaches the richest sections of Pennsylvania, 
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio and Indiana. 
Important trade centres exist all along the line. No matter what 
character of location is desired we can supply it. 

Further information about the country can be ascertained upon 
application to 

M. V. RICHARDS, 

Land and Immigration Agent, 

B. & O. R. R., Baltimore, Md. 



re. a.t\d Oiuo ^aii^oa.dl conr^nu 



G. A. R. GUIDE TO WASHINGTON 




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with a brief description of some points 

of Historic interest on and near 

the line of the 

BALTIMORE & OHIO R.R. 



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Fill 
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I U.r.STR.Vl IONS 



Main Street, Harper's Ferry, 

Jefferson UocU, etc. - 

Point of Rocks, - 

Looking Down the Potomai , etc, 

All Quiet on the Potomac, 

Crossing the Allcghenies, - 

Signaling from Loudon Heights, 

A Virginia Belle, -. - 

Cumberland and the Nat'l Bridge, 

Glimpses of the Valley, 

The Shenandoah in '61, - 

The Shenandoah in '92, 

A Night Session, - 

The Capitol, - 



The New Congressional Library, 32 

Smithsonian Institute, - - 34 

National Museum, - 36 

A Group of Monuments, - - 38 

The White House, - - - - <p 

Corcoran Art Gallery, - - 4-- 

State, War and Navy Departments, 44 

The Treasury, - - - - 46 

Pension Bureau, - - - - 43 

The Patent Office, 50 

The Post-Office, - 52 

Department of Agriculture, - 54 

The Soldiers' Home, - - - 56 

I»'.t. Vernon — Tomb and Mansion, Co 



M A P S 



Battlefields on the B. &. O. 
Gettysburg, - 



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CONTENTS 



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Alexandria, - 
Army Medical Museum, 
Arlington, - 

Benevolent Institutions, - 
Bladensburg, - 
Botanical Garden, 
Bureau of Engraving and Printin 
Capitol and Grounds, 
Cemeteries, - 

Churches, .•.--- 
City Post-Office, 

Coast Survey, - 47 

Columbia Inst, for Deaf and Dumb, 5S 
Committees, - 21 

Corcoran Art Gallery, - 
Corps Headquarters, - 
Department of Agriculture, 
Dome of the Capitol, - 
Department of the Inter, •, 
Department of Justice, 
Georgetown, - 
Georgetown College, 
Georgetown Hi ights, 
< rovernment Printing Office, 
Hack Stands, - - - -67 

Hints to Visitors, - - - 73 
Historic and Picturesque B. & < >. 3 
Hotels, - I 

,i ition, ._-.-_ ..... 
Library ol Congress, - - - 33 
■ in of Washington, - - 27 
Location of Points 73 

Mt. Vernon, .... 6, 





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Money Order Office, - 


63 


Marine Barracks, 


- 5 1 


Navy Department, 


49 


Naval Hospital, 


- S> 


Navy Yard, 


5* 


National Military ( 


y, - 58 


National Museum, 


3' 


National Observatory, - 


- 5« 


Patent Office, 


53 


Peabody Library, - 


- 57 


Pension Office, - 


- - 53 


Plan of the City, 


- 29 


Places of Amusement, 


65 


Post-Office Department, 


- 53 


President's House, 


41 


Kates of Fare for II. \ i. ;, 


- 66 


Re-Unions, - - - 


- - 21 


Rogers Bronze Door, 


- 33 


Rotunda of the Capiti 1, 


- 


Side Trips to Prominent 1 


aUlericldsiS 


Smithsonian Institute, 


39 


Soldiers' Home, 


- - 58 


State Department, 


45 


t Car Routes, 


- 6. 


Telegraph Offices, 


68 


Theatres, - 


- - 65 


Treasury Department, 


47 


1 '. S. Barracks, 


- 5' 


U. S. Fish Ponds, 


57 


1 '. S. Fish Commis 


- 57 


War Department, 


49 


W'.islll 


- 4' 



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Historic # Picturesque B. & 0. 

THE VETERANS' ROUTE TO WASHINGTON. 



The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad has much of interest to offer the 
tourist or even the commercial traveler. The grandeur and beauty 
of the scenery along the line is world-renowned, and has gained for 
this route the sobriquet of " Picturesque B. & O." 

When to the natural beauty of the landscape is added the 
historic associations that invest almost every mile of the road from 
the Ohio River to the National Capital, the B. & O. becomes a route 
of peculiar attractiveness to the veterans who will assemble in Wash- 
ington next September, many of them for the first time since the 
grand review in 1865. 

Much of the region traversed by the B. & O. R.R. was, during 
the late war, debatable ground, over which the contending hosts 
marched and fought. The importance of keeping this great highway 
open as a means of communication between the West and the Army 
of the Potomac impelled the National Government to guard it with 
watchful care, and thousands of the surviving veterans bivouacked 
and did sentry duty along its line. 

Harper's Ferry and its environs, the towering Maryland Heights 
on the north bank of the Potomac, and Loudon Heights, in the angle 
between the Potomac and the Shenandoah, is one of the most beauti- 
ful spots in the world as well as one of surpassing interest. It is at 
this point that the historic Potomac, disdaining impediment, has 
literally cleft its way through the Blue Ridge Mountains, whore rock- 
ribbed walls rise sheer for a thousand feet from the water's edge. 
It was here, as all the world knows, that John Brown in his frenzied 
zeal defied the pride and power of the Old Dominion. If the spirits 
of the dead visit the scenes of their earthly struggles, no spot more 
appropriate for the visitations of the ghost of the rugged old agitator 




M A I N S 1 R BE I . 



K 1' E R,'S 1 B K R Y. 



could be fancied than where the turbulent waters of the 
historic rivers fret the base of the soaring cliffs that guard the 
way to the Valley of Virginia. 

Early in the spring of 1861 Harper's Ferry was o< i 

-Johnson and Stonewall Jackson. The Federal troop; 




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JEFFERSON ROCK. RATTLING SPRING 
JOHN BROWN'S FORT. 



were encamped almost immediately opposite at Sandy Hook. The 
experience of passengers on board the B. & O. trains during this 
period was of a character not altogether pleasant : stopped on the 
Maryland side of the river by the Union forces, and again on the 
Virginia side by the Confederate forces, a man had to be careful 
and remember to just which power he had last given allegiance. In 
a few weeks the Confederates evacuated the Ferry, moving to Win- 
chester, the Federals taking possession and holding it until Septem- 
ber, 1862, when General Stonewall Jackson captured it and compelled 




I'OINT OF ROCK S — 1 < 



Colonel White, the Federal commander, to surrender with eleven 
thousand men. The Union forces were paroled and Jackson 
marched immediately to join Lee at Antietam. Harper's Ferry is 
about ten miles from Sharpsburg, where the battle of Antietam was 
fought, the Confederates speaking of it as the battle of Sharpsburg 
because McClellan's headquarters were on the edge of that town, 
and the Federals calling it the battle of Antietam because ii was 



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SIGNALING FROM LOUDON HEIGHTS. 



was occupied by two thousand Union men under the command of 
General French. Lee's arm)' crossed at Shepherdstown, and re- 
crossed on his retreat from Gettysburg at Falling Waters, which is 

plainly discernible. Many a 
man could sit for a day upon 
Bolivar Heights and tell of the 
part he had played in fixing 
the destiny of the country ; 
and no insignificant number 
of old soldiers have stopped 
over at Harper's Ferry, have 
climbed the Heights, and 
stood there, as will their chil- 
dren in the future. No place 
will be more sacred, no point 
more absorbing in its in- 
terest, and no spot more 
cherished. 

Just south of Harper's 
Ferry in the valley lies Win- 
chester, which during the war 
was the scene of almost con- 
tinuous contests, first one 
a Virginia belle. s ide holding the town and 

then the other. Early in the conflict Stonewall Jackson attacked 
Banks, giving him a lively time, for before it was over he had cap- 
tured about two million dollars' worth of medical stores, which at 
that juncture were especially valuable to the Confederates. Soon 
afterward the town again fell into the hands of the Federals, but in 
June General Lee's advance corps under Ewell gave battle to 
General Milroy, who commanded the Union forces, and hemmed 
him in so closely that it was only at the end of the second day, and 
after hard and brilliant fighting, that Milroy succeeded in cutting 
his way out. After the battle of Antietam the Confederate forces 
fell back to Winchester and there wintered. Early in the summer 
of 1864 General Grant, deeming the Valley of Virginia an important 
position to control, sent General Sheridan with a large force of 
cavalry to occupy Winchester, which he did, forcing the Confed- 
erates to Cedar Creek, some ten miles south of the town, the spot 









MBERLA ' RROWS. 



made famous by Buchanan Reed's poem " Sheridan's Ride." In one 
way or another Winchester was in an almost incessant state of tur- 
moil, and it appears strange that anything should be left of the 
place. It is now, however, a thriving business centre, and the prin- 
cipal entrepot of the lower valley. 

Four miles from Winchester is Kernstown, where, in December, 
1861, a battle was fought between Jackson and Shields, and where 
the gallant hero of Mexican renown whipped the redoubtable Stone- 
wall and forced him from his position — compelled him to retreat up 
the valley, Shields pursuing him. The railroad bridge across Cedai 
Creek stands at the point where the fighting was of the hardest 
character, and old soldiers could doubtless point out the spot wheic 
this or that charge was made, or where fell commanders and com- 
rades. 

The notable battle was here fought between Federal troops com- 
manded by Sheridan and Confederates under Juhal Early. The 
latter the night before was encamped several miles down the creek, 
and in the darkness crossed and followed it up on the opposite side, 
where the Federals were quartered. The attack was made at day- 
light, and was so unexpected that a stampede was created, and fully 
a thousand prisoners, in addition to an immense amount of camp 
equipage, taken. General Emory was temporarily in command, 
Sheridan having remained at Winchester. The rout of the Union 
men was complete, and the Confederates, drunk with the excitement 
of their victory, forgot caution and everything else in the whole- 
sale pillage of the captured stores. Meantime the news of the dire 
disaster had reached Sheridan, and in a second there was aroused 
in him all that wonderful quickness of decision and dash of operations 
which made him the most successful cavalry general this country 
ever produced. Mounting his charger, which Buchanan Reed has 
so vividly described, the doughty general plunged his spurs in deep 
and in a twinkling was off on that ever-memorable ride from Win- 
chester. That the poet did take liberties with the facts detracts from 
Phil. Sheridan not one iota of the glory which attaches to his remark- 
able achievement. When he reached his shattered and distracted 
forces he was in himself a power greater than would have been 
added to the day by fully ten thousand fresh troops. He was abso- 
lutely irresistible ; his presence and his voice restored confidence 
in a manner that nothing else could, and he turned defeat into 



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H§| victory before the 
Confederates could 
half realize what they 
had lost. Sheridan 
fell upon them like 
an avenger, and in 
their disorder and 
unsoldier-like con- 
fusion he almost 
swept them from the face 
of the earth. Within an 
hour he had not only re- 
gained all of his own men that had 
been captured, but he made prisoners 
of as many Confederates. Early re- 
treated in terrible confusion, but Sheri- 
dan came relentlessly upon his rear 
fought him hotly at every opportunity, 
and annihilated his command at 
Waynesboro, where the last halt was 
made. It was one of the greatest con- 
summations of all the war; and had Sheridan done naught else 
he would forever have been entitled to the honor of his country 
and the respect of his foes for this one glorious exploit. 

It was at Martinsburg that occurred the wholesale de truction 
of railroad propertj bj Stonewall Jackson. Aitei battering out of 



i H E VALLEY. 



all former semblance such machinery as he could not make use of, 
and burning the coaches, cars and buildings, Jackson determined 
upon carrying away with him six or eight of the B. & O. engines. 
The familiar remark to the effect that a man would carry off a red-hot 
stove if it were not for the difficulty in handling it would seem to 
apply to the making off with half-a-dozen locomotives with no rail 
upon which to run them. This obstacle, however, did not deter 
Stonewall from getting away with the locomotives, one of his officers 
so rigging them up that powerful teams managed to pull them back 
through the country to a railway line in possession of the Confeder- 
ates, upon which they were placed and used during the war. This 
same officer, who accomplished results which hardly any other man 
would have thought of as practical, was afterwards Master oi 
Transportation of the road from which he confiscated the engines. 

Ball's Bluff, where the gifted and gallant Senator Baker fell, lies 
just across the Potomac from the station of Tuscarora, on the Metro- 
politan Branch of the B. & O. 

The battle-field of Monocacy lies along the river of that name, 
which is crossed by the old Main Line of the B. & O. at Frederick 
Junction, three and one-half miles south of Frederick City, 
Maryland. 

The field ol Antietam lies between the Hagerstown Branch of 
the B. & O. and the line of the Shenandoah Valley Division of the 
Norfolk & Western R.R. The stations nearest the battle-ground are 
Keedysville on the B. & O. and Antietam on the N. & W. 

This entire section of Maryland was overrun by the armies of 
Lee in his invasion of Pennsylvania, and by the Army of the Poto- 
mac in the pursuit that culminated in the battle of Gettysburg, the 
most decisive of the war, and one of the greatest in all history. A 
correct map of the Gettysburg battle-field, showing the position 
occupied by the various commands during the progress of the fight, 
will be found in this book. 

Gettysburg is reached by way of Cherry Run, the point at which 
the Potomac Valley Branch of the Western Maryland R.R. joins 
the B. & O.; also by way of Hagerstown and by way of Baltimore. 

The excursion rate from Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Parkersburg, and 
points west thereof, to Washington or Baltimore and return, via 
Gettysburg, will be eighty-five cents more than the straight excur- 
sion rate to Washington ami Baltimore. T'i >se who come via B. & 










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THE SHEKAJ DO AH IN '61. 



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O. R.R. from the West direct to Washington or Baltimore ca/i have 
the return portion of their excursion tickets exchanged at the B. & O. 
ticket offices in Washington or Baltimore for tickets that will be 
good via Gettysburg, upon payment of eighty-five cents at the time 
exchange is made. 

All excursion tickets sold throughout the West via B. & O. R.R. 
for the G. A. R. encampment at Washington will be good to Balti- 
more, and will be valid for stop-over at Washington, as well as at all 
other points on the B. & O. between Baltimore and Cumberland, Md. 

During the encampment excursion tickets to the various battle- 
fields in the vicinity of Washington will be sold by all the transport- 
ation lines centering at that point. The B. & O. will also sell 
excursion tickets from Harper's Ferry and from Staunton to all 
points on the B. & O. line between Harper's Ferry and Lexington, 
Va. for the benefit of those who desire to visit the battle-grounds in 
the Virginia Valley. 

The excursion rates for side trips to principal points will be 
found upon the following page. 



SIDE TRIPS TO PROMINENT BATTLE-FIELDS 



TO 



Antietam, Md 

Cedar Creek, Va 

Fisher's Hill, Va 

Frederick Junction, Md . . . 

Frederick, Md 

Front Royal, Va 

Gettysburg, Pa 

Harper's Ferry, W. Va 

Harrisonburg, Va 

Kcedysville, Md 

Kernstown, Va 

Lexington, Va 

Luray, Va 

Middletown, Va 

Natural Bridge Station, Va. 

New Market, Va 

Phillippi, W. Va 

Port Republic, Va 

Staunton, Va 

Strasburg, Va 

Waj nesboro, Va 

Weverton, Md 

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to. 75 



i-95 



51.50 
1.70 



$2.60 
2.40 



$1.95 



3-25 



1. 15 

5-25 



5-25 



3- 10 



i-45 



2. 6 = 



4.10 

1.70 



1 -05 



4. 10 
.85 



2 95 
i. 20 



2.65 



r-45 



2.50 



3-05 



6 to 
o .5 



52.15 
2.80 
2.90 
1.60 
1.70 
2.50 
3-35 
1 65 
4.40 
i-95 
2.80 
5-75 
3-35 
2.80 
5.60 
3-8o 



4.20 

4-55 
2 . 80 
4.20 
1.60 
2.70 



In addition to tickets as above, going and returning over the 
same route, tickets reading via circuitous routes will be sold as 
follows : 

FROM WASHINGTON. 



Baltimore & Ohio R.R. to Harper's Ferry. 

" " " to Staunton. 

Chesapeake &; Ohio R.R. to Washington. 

Rate, - ... $5.00. 

Baltimore & Ohio R.R. to Harper's Fern-. 

" " " to Lexington. 

Chesapeake & Ohio R.R. to Lynchburg. 
Norfolk & Western R.R. to Petersburg. 
Richmond & Petersburg R.R. to Richmond. 
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac R.R. to Quantico. 
Baltimore & Potomac R.R. to Washington. 

Rate, $7-95- 

Baltimore & Ohio R.R. to Harper's Ferry. 

" " " to Staunton. 

Chesapeake tS: Ohio R.R. to Richmond. 
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac R.R. to Quantico. 
Baltimore & Potomac R.R. to Washington. 

Rate, - - - - - $6.50. 

Baltimore & Ohio R.R. to Shenandoah Junction. 
Norfolk & Western R.R. to Basic. 
Chesapeake & Ohio R.R. to Washington. 

Rate, $4.85. 

Baltimore & Ohio R.R. to Shenandoah Junction. 

Norfolk & Western R.R. to Basic. 

Chesapeake & Ohio R.R. to Richmond. 

Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac R.R. to Quantico. 

Baltimore & Potomac R.R. to Washington. 

Rate, $6.35. 



6; Baltimore & Ohio R.R. to Shenandoah Junction. 
Norfolk & Western R.R. to Roanoke. 

" to Petersburg. 
Richmond & Petersburg R.R. to Richmond. 
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac R.R. to Quantico. 
Baltimore & Potomac R.R. to Washington. 

Rate, $8.95. 

7. Baltimore & Ohio R.R. to Shenandoah Junction. 
Norfolk & Western R.R. to Hagerstown. 
Western Maryland R.R. to Gettysburg. 

" "to Baltimore. 

timore & Ohio R.R. to Washington. 

Rate, $4.75. 

8. Baltimore i\: Ohio R.R. to Hagerstown. 
Western Maryland R.R. to Gettysburg. 

" " " to Baltimore. 

Baltimore & Ohio R.R. to Washington. 

R vte, $4- r >5- 

I 1 kets via routes and at rates quoted above, will be on sale at 
stations designated from September 22d to 30th, and good for return 
until October 8th, 1892. They will permit passengers to stop off 
at intermediate stations. 

Tickets will be sold to all persons holding excursion tickets to 
Washington, D. C. and Baltimore, Md., issued account of Re-union 
of the National Association of Naval Veterans, l". S. N. and for 
the National Encampment of the G. A. R. 



RE-UNIONS. 

One of the most interesting events of the encampment will be the 
re-unions as mapped out by Captain John McElroy. The hospitality 
of Washington will engage a great deal of the veterans' attention, 
but the principal source of pleasure and the one dominant attraction 
that will draw them to this encampment will be that of again meeting 
those with whom they marched and fought, and when the old fellows 
do find each other there will be no separating them ; the bond which 
unites veterans who have fought and bled together comes near being 
the most enduring of all. 

The scheme involves a classification of the entire Grand Army 
into thirty-two corps or sub-organizations, which will be one for each 
of the twenty-five infantry corps, one for the cavalry of the Army of 
the Potomac, one for the artillery of the Army of the Potomac, one 
for the cavalry of the military division of the Mississippi, one for the 
colored troops of the military division of the Mississippi, one for the 
sailors and marines, one for the ex-prisoners of war, and one for the 
engineers. 

CORPS HEADQUARTERS. 

For each of these corps headquarters will be established, and in 
these several buildings rosters will be kept. As the men arrive in 
the cky they will report at the headquarters of the corps to which 
they belonged, and their names will go down on the roster. Then 
there will be sub-divisions of each corps in charge of an active sub- 
committee, and just as soon as a man lets the officer in charge of 
corps headquarters know what command he belonged to he can be 
brought into immediate connection with some of those who were his 
intimate comrades during the war. All an inquiring veteran will 
need to do will be to find his corps headquarters and from that point 
he can easily locate any division, brigade or regiment. 

COMMITTEES. 

The Chairmen of the various Committees can be found at the 
addresses given below : 

Executive — John Toy Edson, ioth and F Streets, N. W. 
Reception and Invitation — Hon. J. W. Douglas, Pres't Board of 
District Commissioners. 



Finance -G. E. Lemon, 1729 New York Avenue, N. W. 

Legislation — Beriah Wilkins, Washington Post Building. 

Accommodations — L. P. Wright, Register of Wills, 12th and B 
Streets, N. E. 

Entertainments — Gen. S. S. Burdett, 1748 M Street, N. W. 

Review and Parade — Gen. Ellis Speer, War Department. 

Transportation to Washington — R. A. Parke, 6th and B Streets. 

Transportation to Battlefields — S. B. Hege, 1351 Pennsylvania 
Avenue. 

Parks and Reservations — O. G. Staples, 14th Street and Pennsyl- 
vania Avenue. 

Press— Gen. H. V. Boynton, 511 14th Street, N. W. 

Re-unions — Capt. Jno. McElroy, 1729 New York Avenue, N. W. 

Camp Fires — Deputy Com. J. M. Pipes, U. S. Senate. 

Street Decorations — L. D. Wine, 916 F Street, N. W. 

Fireworks — Lawrence Gardner, 419 10th Street, N. W. 

Illuminations — Capt. A. A. Thomas, 930 F Street, N. W. 

Music — E. D. Hay, 1425 New York Avenue, N. W. 

Military Organizations — Gen. Ordway, 702 17th Street, N. W. 

Public Order — Col. W. G. Moore, Sup't Police. 

Hall for Entertainments — Geo. W. Driver, 6th Street and Penn- 
sylvania Avenue. 

Horses and Carriages — C. T. Wood, 1620 M Street, N. W. 



FOR FULL, INFORMATION 

As to time of trains, rates, sleeping car accommodations, etc., 
address any of the following Agents of the B. & O. R.R. Co.: 

Baltimore, Baltimore and Calvert Streets — B. F. Bond, Division 
Passenger Agent. 

ON, 211 Washington Street— A. J. Simmons, New England Pas- 
senger Agent. 

CHICAGO, The Rookery L. S. Allen, Assistant General Passenger 
Agent. 

CHILLICOTHE, O. — E. E. Patton, Traveling Passenger Agent. 

Cincinnati, Grand Central Depot— O. P. McCarty, Assistant General 
Passenger Agent. 



Cleveland, O. 218 Bank Street— C. F. Wood, Traveling Passengei 
Agent. 

Columbus, O. 270 North High Street — W. E. Reppert, Division Pas- 
senger Agent. 

Kansas City, Mo. — George B. Warfel, Western Passenger Agent. 

Newark, N. J. 180 Market Street — E. H. Hoffman, Ticket Agent. 

Newark, O. — Frank Wilson, Traveling Passenger Agent. 

New Orleans, La. 34 St. Charles Street — Arthur De Armas, South- 
western Passenger Agent. 

New York, 415 Broadway — C. P. Craig, General Eastern Passenger 
Agent ; E. G. Tuckerman, City Passenger Agent. 

Omaha, Neb. — C. H. Duxbury, Traveling Passenger Agent. 

Philadelphia, 833 Chestnut Street — C. R. Mackenzie, District Pas- 
senger Agent. 

Pittsburgh, corner 5th Avenue and Wood Street — E. D. Smith, 
Division Passenger Agent. 

Reading, Pa. — D. D. Courtney, Traveling Passenger Agent. 

San Francisco, Cal. 634 Market Street — Peter Harvey, Pacific 
Coast Agent. 

St. Louis, 105 North Broadway — G. M. Taylor, Passenger Agent. 

St. Paul, Minn. — J. V. Cherry, Traveling Passenger Agent. 

Tiffin, O.— F. P. Copper, Traveling Passenger Agent. 

Wheeling, W. Va. — T. C. Burke, Passenger and Ticket Agent ; 
John T. Lane, Traveling Passenger Agent. 

Wilmington, Del. Delaware Avenue Station — H. A. Miller, Pas- 
senger and Ticket Agent. 

Winchester, Va. — C. E. Dudrow, Traveling Passenger Agent. 

CHAS. O. SCULL, 

General Passenger Agent. 

Baltimore, Md. 




f 



Guide 



TO 



WASHINGTON 




AMERICAN BANKNOTE CO. 



cNtwX>Ri* 



I892, 

Copyrighted by 
Charles O. Scull. 



WASHINGTON. 



WASHINGTON is in many respects the most interesting city 
in America. It is the favorite place of pilgrimage for many 
thousands of intelligent tourists, who are attracted from all parts of 
the world by the beauty of its streets and parks, the architectural 
proportions of its massive and many public buildings, the numerous 
statues and hundreds of other objects that interest the traveler. 

The subject of having a territory under the exclusive jurisdiction 
of Congress was one of the first to receive the attention of the legis- 
lators of the new Republic, and the establishment of a permanent 
seat of government two years after the form of government was 
adopted by the nation, was one of the most important acts of Con- 
gress in the early stages of the country's existence. 

The Continental Congress opened its first session in Phila- 
delphia, Sept. 5th, 1774, but on account of the advance made by the 
British Army and other causes later on, it was compelled to keep up 
a peripatetic existence, moving from Philadelphia to Baltimore, 
thence back to Philadelphia, to Princeton, N. J., Annapolis, Md., 
Trenton, N. J. and New York, where it continued its place of meet- 
ing until the adoption of the Constitution of the United States in 1788. 

The struggle for the location of the National Capital began in 
the Continental Congress, and was only abandoned here to give place 
to graver matters which required the attention of that body, and to 
avoid the local irritation raised by the subject, then thought to be a 
serious question to the life of the New Republic. 

In the first Federal Congress the matter was again made the 
subject of serious debate. New York was determined to hold on to 
what was then in her possession. Pennsylvania was extremely 
desirous of having the seat of power within her territory ; New Jersey, 
Maryland and Virginia each were eager for the much desired prize. 

No less than twenty-four different sites were proposed, and a 
number of cities offered inducements by agreeing to transfer their 



public buildings, while the citizens of Baltimore subscribed thirty 
thousand pounds for the erection of necessary buildings there. 

> Finally a bill passed the House Sept. 22d, 1789, selecting Penn- 
sylvania as the place for the location of a permanent Capital. 

This led to bitter opposition on the part of the Southern mem- 
bers, led by Mr. Madison, who was supposed to express the views of 
President Washington. 

The bill, however, suffered defeat on coming into the Senate, by 
having its consideration postponed. 

At the next session of Congress the fight became hotter than 
ever, and many thought the existence of the Union depended upon 
the subject. 

Finally, on the 8th of June, 1790, this vexed question was unex- 
pectedly and amicably settled, and Congress recommended the 
selection of a site on the eastern or north-eastern bank of the 
Potomac. 

How this settlement came about will be seen from the following : 

The Government was engaged in the effort to fund its debts ; and 
among the troublesome propositions introduced was one providing 
that the General Government should assume the debts incurred by 
the several States in carrying on the Revolutionary War, amounting 
to $20,000,000. This measure was urged by the North which had 
furnished the greater portion of the men and means, on the ground 
that the expenditure had been for the benefit of the country as a 
whole, while it was unpopular at the South because it would increase 
their proportion. Hamilton found that to carry the measure would 
require some southern votes ; and in connection with Jefferson, who 
was greatly interested in having the Capital located in Virginia, or 
as near as possible, it was arranged that the latter should induce the 
Virginia delegation to vote for the assumption, while Hamilton was 
to induce the New York delegation to give up their preference for 
the location of the Capital at the North. 

The result was that the bill locating the Capital on the Potomac, 
passed on the 16th of July, and that for the assumption of the debts 
on the 4th of August, 1790. 

PLAN OK THE CITY. 

In 1777 there came to this country, to serve in the war for inde- 
pendence, a Frenchman by the name of Pierre C. L'Enfant. He was 
an engineer by profession, and served under Count D'Estaing, being 

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severely wounded in th3 assault on Savannah. He was afterward em- 
ployed by Congress, and was made a major of engineers in 1783. 

L'Enfant became acquainted with President Washington, and was 
selected by him to make a plan of the new Federal City, which was 
afterward approved, and he was employed to superintend its execu- 
tion, assisted by Andrew Ellicott, a bright Pennsylvanian who, with 
his brother, had established the town of Ellicott's Mills, now a pros- 
perous town on the main stem of the B. & O., 15 miles from 
Baltimore. 

L'Enfant's plan met the full approval of Washington and also 
of Jefferson, then Secretary of State, of whom it was said that "he 
almost monopolized the artistic taste and knowledge of the first 
adminstration." 

Washington desired that "the Capitol" should be located in the 
centre of the city, and the public buildings, more than a mile distant, 
in the western section. 

What first attracts the attention of strangers is the unusual width 
of the streets and avenues, the former averaging from go to 130 feet 
and the latter 160 feet, while the side-walks are from 10 to 20 feet 
wide. 

A better idea of this may be obtained by comparing the amount 
of ground occupied by streets in other cities. For instance, the 
street area in Boston is 26 per cent., Philadelphia 29, New York 35, 
Berlin 26, Vienna 35, Paris 25, while the area covered by streets in 
Washington is 54 per cent. 

The City is divided into rectangular squares by streets running 
east and west and north and south. In addition to these a series of 
broad avenues are arranged to intersect each other at the Capitol, 
like spokes at the hub of a wheel, while others meet at the White 
House. 

Strangers find it very confusing, as these avenues cross the streets 
diagonally, and for squares the street is lost. A duplication of the 
names of the streets is another difficulty. It is well to understand 
the method of numbering. Commencing at the Capitol the streets 
running north and south are designated by numbers and those run- 
ning east and west by letters. Therefore we have A, Band C, etc., 
north, and A, B and C, etc., south ; 1st, 2d, 3d, etc., east, and 1st, 
2d, 3d, etc., west. To simplify matters, however, a system of be- 
ginning each square with an additional 100 has been adopted, so 



that one is enabled to tell exactly how man}' squares one is from the 
Capitol. A large number of parks in different shapes are formed 
throughout the city by the intersection of avenues. These are being 
ornamented with flowers, shrubbery, statuary and fountains. 

South of Pennsylvania Avenue, extending from the Capitol to 
the White House, is a large reservation called the Mall. The 
National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Agricultural Depart- 
ment, Washington's Monument, the ponds for fish culture, and the 
Botanical Garden are located on this reservation. 

A recent writer, in describing the condition of Washington in 
early times, says : 

" Pennsylvania Avenue, the 'Appian Way ' of our Republic, was 
graded while Jefferson was President, at a cost of $14,000. He per- 
sonally superintended the planting of four rows of Lombardy poplars 
along that portion of it between the Capitol and the White House, 
a row along each curbstone, and two equi-distant rows in the 
roadway, which was thus divided into three parts, like Unter den 
Linden at Berlin. In the Winter and Spring the driveway would 
often be full of mudholes, some of them ankle-d^ep, and some of the 
cross streets would be an almost impassable bed of red clay, worked 
by passing horses and wheels into a thick mortar. On one occasion, 
when Mr. Webster and a friend undertook to go to Georgetown in a 
hackney coach to attend a dinner party, the vehicle got stuck in a 
mudhole and the driver had to carry his passengers one at a time to 
the side-walk, where they stood until the empty carriage could be 
pulled out. Mr. Webster, narrating this incident years afterward, 
used to laugh over his fears that his bearer would fall beneath his 
weight and ruin his dress suit." 

Some idea of the growth of Washington may be gained from the 
following extract taken from the last annual report made to Congress 
by the District Commissioners : 

The total expenditure of money from the National Treasury 
for the District of Columbia down to the year 1876 was $92,112,395. 
Of this sum $17,184,191 was expended upon the Capitol; Patent 
Office, $13,197,149; Department of State, $4,989,248; Treasury 
Department, $7,062,942 ; Navy Department, $3,899,136 ; Post-office. 
$2,124,504; War Department, $2,040,065; Executive Mansion, 
$1,640,449 ; Department of Agriculture, $3,174,192 ; public grounds 
and streets, $7,842,831 ; Library of Congress, $1,575,847, and works 



of art, $602,569. The property of the District of Columbia for the 
year ending the 30th of June, 1S86, amounted in value to $234,639,436, 
of which $120,236,346 was returned as taxable, while the non-taxa- 
ble property, belonging to the District Government and the United 
States, with the private property exempted by law, amounted to 
$113,803,090, or the total already mentioned. 

THE CAPITOL. 

The Capitol of the United States, like that of ancient Rome, 
stands upon a hill. The view from the dome is pronounced by all 
travelers to be one of the grandest in the world. The structure con- 
sists of a main building and two wings connected by corridors, upon 
which has been expended over $15,000,000. The Capitol is 751 feet 
4 inches long, with a depth of 324 feet, including the steps of the 
extensions. The main or central building is built of freestone 
painted to conform to the general appearance of the wings, which 
are of white marble. 

the; library of congress. 

The present Library of Congress occupies the entire western 
projection of the central Capitol building. When the British set fire 
to the Capitol in 1814 the original library was destroyed. The 
crowded condition of the present library has induced Congress to 
provide more commodious quarters. The magnificent structure that 
will soon be erected for the accommodation of this branch of the 
Government will equal in elegance and architectural design any in 
the capital. 

The number of volumes in the library in 1874 was 274,157 vol- 
umes and 50,000 pamphlets; in January, 1878, 331,118 volumes; in 
January, 1888, the count showed 596,957 volumes and 200,000 pam- 
phlets. According to the present rate of increase, in thirty years, or in 
1918, the number of the collection would be 1,400,000 volumes. The 
Congressional Library is intended principally for the use of Con- 
gress, although any visitor over sixteen years of age can obtain 
books to read, only in the library, by filling up the required blank and 
presenting it at the librarian's desk. 

THE ROGERS BRONZE DOOR. 
This celebrated work of art is located in the main entrance to 
the Capitol. The designs picture events in the life of Columbus and 

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the discovery of America. It stands nineteen feet high, is nine 
feet wide, and is folding or double. It is made of solid bronze and 
weighs 20,000 pounds. There are nine panels depicting events in 
regular order, starting with the examination of "Columbus before the 
Council of Salamanca," then "Columbus' Departure from the Con- 
vent of La Rabida ;" " The Audience at the Court of Ferdinand and 
Isabella ; " " Starting of Columbus from Palos on his first Voyage ; " 
"First Landing of the Spaniards at San Salvador;" "First En- 
counter of the Discoverers with the Natives;" "Triumphal Entry 
of Columbus into Barcelona;" "Columbus in Chains," and the 
next the " Death Scene," representing the death-bed of Columbus. 
The door was modeled by Randolph Rogers in Rome in 1858, and 
cast in Munich in i860 by F. von Midler. The cost of the door 
was $30,000. 

ROTUNDA. 

The Rotunda, which occupies the centre of the Capitol, is a 
magnificent circular hall 97 feet in diameter by 300 in circumference, 
with a central height of 180 feet and 3 inches. Eight oil paintings, 
18 by 12 feet each, are set in panels around the walls of the Rotunda; 
they are the " Landing of Columbus at San Salvador," by John Van- 
derlyn ; " De Soto's Discovery of the Mississippi," by William H. 
Powell; "The Baptism of Pocahontas," by John G. Chapman; 
"The Embarkation of the Pilgrims from Delft-Haven," by Robert 
Walter Weir, and four paintings by Col. John Trumbull, an aid-de- 
camp to General Washington during the Revolutionary War, who 
afterwards studied in Europe and devoted thirty years to collecting 
material and executing these pictures. The subjects are " Signing 
the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776;" "Surrender of 
General Burgoyne, Saratoga, Oct. 17th, 1777;" the "Surrender of 
Lord Cornwallis, at Yorktown, Oct. 19th, 1781," and the " Resigna- 
tion of General Washington, at Annapolis, Dec. 23d, 1783." These 
pictures have historical accuracy and correct portraiture of charac- 
ters as well as exquisite coloring, finished details and strong effect. 
Over each of the four entrances to the Rotunda are alto-relievos in 
stone, representing "William Penn's Treaty with the Indians in 
1686," by N. Gevelot ; "The Preservation of Captain Smith b) 
Pocahontas in 1606," by Capellano ; " The Conflict between Daniel 
Boone and the Indians, 1775," by Causici, and "The Landing of 







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'he Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock in 16:20, '' also by Causici.^ The belt 
of the Rotunda — a sunken space about 9 feet high — is covered with 
a fresco in chiaro-oscura in imitation of alto-relievo, begun by 
Brumidi and after his death continued by Castigini. Above this 
fresco are the thirty-six long windows of the peristyle and then the 
huge iron ribs of the dome gradually curving to a space 50 feet in 
diameter, forming what is called the "eye of the dome." Around 
this open "eye" is nainted Constantine Brumidi's magnificent 
allegory of " The Apotneosis of Washington." 

The principal story of the building contains the Rotunda, Su- 
preme Court, Statuary Hall, Library, Senate Chamber and Hall of 
of Representatives, Reception Rooms, Marble Room, President's 
and Vice-President's Rooms, Committee Rooms, etc. 

DOME. 

The Dome of the Capital was designed by Walter, and replaced 
the smaller one removed in 1856. Total height from base-line to the 
crest of the Statue of Freedom, 307^ feet ; total height above low 
tide on the Potomac, 397 feet. Diameter, 135^ feet. The dome rests 
on an octagonal base or stylobate, 93 feet above the basement floor, 
and at the top line of the building consists of a peristyle, 124 feet in 
diameter, of 36 iron fluted columns 27 feet high and weighing 6 
tons each. Above this is the balustrade. Above the balustrade is 
the domical covering. The apex is surmounted by a lantern 15 feet 
in diameter and 50 feet high, surrounded by a peristyle, and crown- 
ed by the bronze Statue of Freedom. In the lantern is a reflecting 
lamp lighted by electricity ; it is used only when either or both Houses 
of Congress are sitting at night, and is visible from all parts of the 
city. The Statue of Freedom was designed by Crawford and cast 
by Mills ; cost $25,000. The Dome is reached by a staircase of 290 
steps, and the view of the city and surrounding country is worth the 
effort to ascend such a height. 

THE BOTANICAL GARDEN. 

The National Botanical Garden adjoins the Capitol grounds, 
extending from First to Third Street W., and between Pennsylvania 
and Maryland Avenues. It occupies ground that was originally an 
alder swamp through which Tiber Creek flowed. For a long while 
after it was determined to establish a Garden on the site, it remained 




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in its original swampy condition, and not until 1850, when the first 
building was erected, did it begin to receive attention. 

During the last thirty years the rarest and most beautiful plants 
have been gathered from all parts of the world, until now it compares 
with any of the famous gardens in Europe. 

Within the enclosure of ten acres are small houses for the grow- 
ing of plants, and a grand conservatory three hundred feet in length 
with a huge dome filled with choice floral productions. 

The famous Bartholdi fountain which was on exhibition at the 
Centennial Exhibition, was purchased by the Government, and is 
placed north of the large conservatory. 

THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 

The Smithsonian Institution is a gift to the United States of an 
English gentleman named James Smithson, who was a son of the 
Duke of Northumberland. Having never married he devoted his 
life to science. He left a large fortune to his nephew for life, after 
which it was to go to the United States, "to found at Washington, 
under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for 
the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." The build- 
ing is located in the Smithsonian grounds, which are laid out as a 
public park, with broad drives and footways, handsome lawns and 
groves of luxuriant trees. The building is of red sandstone, and is 
of the Norman style of architecture. There are nine towers of dif 
ferent forms and types. The front extends four hundred and twenty- 
six feet, the centre building being fifty by two hundred feet, and there 
are two wings, the east one having a vestibule and porch attached and 
the west one a semi-circular projection. 

The institution expends about $70,000 a year in various scientific 
investigations conducted by its large force of scientists. 

THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 

In 1879 an "annex to the Smithsonian Institution was erected by 
the Government and termed the National Museum." The building is 
directly east of the Smithsonian, and is constructed after plans sug- 
gested by Prof. Baird, the result of a careful examination of the 
most approved structures of the kind, in the Old and New World. 

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There are seventeen spacious exhibition halls within the building, 
and one hundred and thirty-four rooms for other purposes. 

It is now the general dispository of all geological and industrial 
collections of the Government, and is rapidly becoming one of the 
greatest and most attractive museums in the world. Already the 
collections are interesting and instructive, and their fame is spread- 
ing over the country 

THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT. 

This monument, which has been called " the world's greatest 
cenotaph" is on the reservation south of the Treasury, and is an obe- 
lisk 555 feet high. The foundation of the shaft is eighty feet square, 
and it is set in solid rock thirty-six feet below the surface of the earth. 
The lower portion is constructed of blue granite faced with large 
crystal marble, and the upper portion is entirely of white marble. 
Its inner surface is ornamented at intervals with " memorial stones" 
presented by the States and Cities of the United States, by Foreign 
Countries and by associations of different kinds, throughout the world. 
The various inscriptions and highly embellished designs en these 
stones, which are arranged so as to be plainly seen in ascending the 
monument, add much to the beauty and interest of this part of the 
structure. In addition to the stairway in the centre of the shaft is an 
elevator. 

The corner stone was laid July 4th, 1848. The funds were 
exhausted and work suspended before the civil war culminated, 
but Congress having made an appropriation for the purpose, work 
was recommenced, and the shaft completed at a height of 555 feet, 
on Dec. 6th, 1884. The capstone is a cuneiform keystone, five feet, 
two and a half inches from base to top, and weighs 3,300 pounds. 

THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE. 

The President's House is located on the government reservation, 
called " President's Grounds," with a frontage on Pennsylvania Ave- 
nue. It is in the centre of a twenty-acre plat, which is tastefully laid 
out with flower-beds, trees, shrubbery and well kept lawns. At the 
rear of the house is a park sloping gradually to the river bank. In 
the summer the mansion is almost hid by the expansive foliage from 
the stately oaks, sycamores and poplars which adorn the grounds. 
The building was designed by an Irishman, James Iloban, and 



is said to be in general style similar to the residence of the Duke of 
Leinster, Dublin. 

The President's House is also called the Executive Mansion and 
the White House, the latter being the most used. The building is 
two stories high, one hundred and seventy feet long, and eighty-six 
feet wide. A large portico supported by eight pillars extends out 
on the north, under which carriages drive. 

The State Parlors are on the first floor, and are reached from the 
great vestibule into which the main entrance door opens. 

The East Room, originally intended for a ball room, is the largest 
apartment in the house, and is of the Grecian style of architecture, 
richly ornamented. The ceilings are lofty and are divided into three 
panels highly decorated, and in the centre of each hangs a massive 
crystal chandelier. Numerous expensive minors supported by carved 
mantels are located at different parts of the room, and the furniture 
and hangings are most elaborate. A full length portrait of Wash- 
ington, by Gilbert Stewart, and one of Martha Washington, by E. F. 
Andrews, are hung in this room. 

Adjoining the East Room is the Green Room, so called from the 
color of its furniture. Following this is the Blue Room, which is 
furnished in blue and gold. The next room is the Red Room, fur- 
nished and used as a family parlor, and occupied generally by the 
President to sit in at night. 

The State Parlors and the State Dining Room are located on 
this floor. 

On the second floor are located the Executive Offices, Presi- 
dent's Reception Room, Library, etc. In 1814 the British destroyed 
the White House, but in 1815 Congress authorized its restoration, 
the work being done under James Hoban, the original architect. 

CORCORAN ART GALLERY. 

An institution of Washington, which attracts a great deal of 
attention, is the Corcoran Art Gallery, presented to the people of the 
United States by Mr. William W. Corcoran. It was deeded to 
trustees, May 10th, 1869, and a year later was incorporated by an act 
of Congress, the building and grounds being forever exempted from 
taxation. 

The gallery is situated on the northeast corner of Pennsylvania 
Avenue and Seventeeth Street. It has a frontage of one hundred 



and six feet, and a depth of one hundred and twenty-five feet, is of 
fine pressed brick with brown-stone facings and ornaments, and is of 
the Renaissance style of architecture. Ten feet above the ordinary 
roof rises a mansard roof with a central pavilion and two smaller 
ones. The building is two stories in height, and the front is divided 
into recesses by pilasters with capitals representing Indian corn, and 
has four niches in which are statues of Phidias, Raphael, Michael 
Angelo and Albert Durer, portraying sculpture, painting, architec- 
ture and engraving. On the front are fine carvings, the Corcoran 
monogram and the inscription " Dedicated to Art." On the Seven- 
teenth Street side are niches containing the statues of Titian, DaVinci, 
Rubens and Rembrandt, and it is intended to add those of Murillo, 
Canova and Crawford. These statues are of Carrara marble, seven 
feet high, and were executed by Mr. Ezekiel, an American sculptor 
residing in Rome. The building was designed by James Renwick, 
of New York, and executed at a cost of $250,000. The gallery was 
opened to the public in December, 1874. 

Mr. Corcoran gave to it his private collection of paintings and 
statuary, valued at $100,000, and an endowment fund of $900,000. 
The gallery has an income of nearly $80,000 annually, the larger 
portion of which is expended in the purchase of pictures and statues. 
It is open to the public daily, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 
free, at a charge of twenty-five cents on other days. 

STATE DEPARTMENT. 

The Department of State was created by an Act of Congress in 
1789. Formerly the issuing of patents and copyrights, taking the 
census and a general supervision of the affairs of the Territories came 
under the direction of this department. The department is divided 
into several bureaus, namely : Diplomatic Bureau, Consular 
Bureau, Bureau of Indexes and Archives, Bureau of Accounts, 
Bureau of Statistics, Bureau of Rolls, and several minor divisions. 

The State, War and Navy Department Building is located on 
part of the reservation called "President's Grounds." This mag- 
nificent structure combines the massive proportions of ancient 
with the elegance of modern architecture. The building is en- 
tirely fire-proof, and in its construction the greatest care has been 
taken to harmonize all the parts, which has resulted in an almost 
perfect specimen of architecture The length of the building, north 



to south, is 567 feet ; east to west, 342 feet ; greatest height, 128 feet. 
The rooms of the Secretary of State, the Diplomatic Corps ante- 
room and the Reception Room, which are elegantly furnished, are on 
the second floor. Many valuable documents, including the first 
draft of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, Wash- 
ington's commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, and a 
host of others pertaining to the Revolution are kept in this Depart- 
ment. An elegant library is located on the third floor. 

TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 

After the Treasury Building was destroyed by fire in March, 
1833, it was proposed to locate the new building further down the 
tract on which the other buildings had been erected, to enable the 
Capitol to be seen from the White House. The story goes, that the 
architect delayed in selecting a site, which aroused the ire of General 
Jackson, who, on walking over the ground one morning, planted 
his cane in the north-eastern corner, and said : " Here, right here, I 
want the corner-stone laid." 

The building is situated east of the President's House, on the 
line of Fifteenth Street. It is of the Grecian style of architecture, 
three stories high, over a rustic basement. There are over 200 rooms 
in the building, and yet so fast has this department of the Govern- 
ment grown that the building is crowded with employes. The money 
vaults, made of massive iron and steel, are located in the basement 
of the building. 

BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. 

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is a branch of the 
Treasury Department, and occupies a building on the Mall, corner of 
Fourteenth and B Streets, S. W., near the Washington Monument. 
The building is constructed of pressed brick, and made fire-proof 
throughout. It was finished in 18S0 and cost $300,000. 

THE COAST SURVEY. 

The Coast Survey is also under the supervision of the Secretary 
of the Treasury. This department was established in 1807, and has 
charge of the survey of the coast of the United States on the tide- 
water. The standard weights and measures are furnished the differ- 
ent States from this department. 



THE WAR DEPARTMENT. 

The War Department occupies the northern part of the State, 
War and Navy Building, beside other divisions in different parts of 
Washington. In 1789 the office was made an executive department, 
and the Secretary was then required to execute the orders of the 
President of the United States. 

The divisions of the department are : the office of Secretary of 
War ; the Headquarters of the Army ; the departments of the Adju- 
tant-General, Inspector-General and Paymaster-General ; the Corps 
of Engineers ; the Ordnance Department ; the Bureau of Military 
Justice ; the Signal Office ; the Bureau of War Records, etc. 

The Signal Office is located on G Street, west of the War 
Department, entrance 1719; the Flag Room at 616 Seventeenth 
Street, opposite the department. The Quartermaster-General's De- 
partment is at the corner of Fifteenth Street and Pennsylvania 
Avenue, diagonally opposite the Treasury. The Surgeon-General's 
office is on Pennsylvania Avenue, opposite the north front of the 
Treasury. 

ARMY MEDIC AD MUSEUM. 

The Army Medical Museum is on Tenth Street, N. W., between 
E and F Streets, N. W. Originally the building was a church; it 
was changed into Ford's Theatre, and it was here that Lincoln was 
assassinated. The Government purchased the building afterward 
and applied it to its present purposes. Many objects of interest 
will be found in the Museum. 

NAVY DEPARTMENT. 

This department was originally under the War Department, 
but in 1798 a separate organization was made and the chief officer 
became a member of the Cabinet. Bureaus of the department 
were organized in 1862 to perform the details of the Administration 
under the Secretary of the Navy. The Navy Department occupies 
the eastern portion of the State, War and Navy Building. The fol- 
lowing are the Bureaus of the department : Yards and Docks, Nav- 
igation, Ordnance, Provision and Clothing, Medicine and Surgery, 
Construction and Repairs, Equipment and Recruiting, and Steam 
Engineering. 

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NATIONAL OBSERVATORY. 

Under the Bureau of Navigation is the National Observatory, 
established in 1842. The location is on Peter's, or Camp Hill, an 
elevated point ninety-six feet high on the Potomac River. A power- 
ful telescope was mounted at the observatory in 1873. 

THE NAVAL HOSPITAL, 

Attached to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy 
Department, is located on Pennsylvania Avenue, East, between 
Ninth and Tenth Streets. 

NAVY YARD. 

The Navy Yard is located on the Anacostia River, at the south- 
ern end of Eighth Street. The grounds cover about twenty-seven 
acres, and contain many trophies captured at different times by the 
American navy. A museum containing many objects of interest 
connected with the history of the country is located within the 
grounds. The Wasp, the Argus, the Viper, the Shark and Grampus, 
the sloop St. Louis, and frigates Columbia, Essex, Potomac and 
Brandywine were built here. 

THE UNITED STATES BARRACKS. 

The United States Barracks, formerly Arsenal, occupy about 
sixty-nine acres at the extreme northern portion of Washington. 
Many objects of interest will be found here, including cannon cap- 
tured from the British and French. The grounds are tastefully laid 
out and entered through gates hung on heavy guns. 

THE MARINE BARRACKS. 

The Marine Barracks are a short distance north of the Navy 
Yard entrance between G and I Streets, N. E. The Marine Corps 
was organized in 1798 as an adjunct to the Navy. The barracks wen 
burned by the British in 1S14, but were rebuilt at once. 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 

This department was created in 1849. It comprises the Patent 
Office, the General Land Office, the Census Office, the Bureau of 



Indian Affairs, die Bureau oi Education, the^ Office of the Commis- 
sioner of Railroads, and the Office of the Geological Survey. The 
department is under control of the Secretary of the Interior, who is 
a member of the Cabinet. A general supervision of the Capitol 
(through the office of the Architect), the Government Printing Office, 
the Government Hospital for the Insane, and the Columbia Institu- 
tion for the Deaf and Dumb is had by this department. 

PENSION OFFICE. 

The Pension Office is located in the magnificent structure occu- 
pying the northern portion of Judiciary Square fronting on F and G 
Streets and Fourth and Fifth Streets. The ground plan covers 
nearly two acres, and the cost of the building completed was 
$700,000. A frieze extending around the building at the level of the 
second story is three feet high and 1200 feet long. It was executed 
in terra cotta by a Boston firm, and represents a marching column 
about a quarter of a mile in length, showing the line and staff of 
the army in campaign. From 1861 to 1883, 510,938 claims were 
allowed, and the enormous sum of $621,073,297 was disbursed by 
this department. 

THE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. 

The Patent Office covers two squares, extending from Seventh to 
Ninth and F to G Streets, N. W. The building, which contains 191 
rooms, cost $3,000,000. There are several entrances to this building 
in the different fronts, that facing Eighth Street being the principal 
entrance. The Patent Office Library is located west of the main 
entrance, and contains 20,000 volumes relating to mechanical and use- 
ful arts. The Museum of Models contains about 200,000 models of 
American and Foreign inventions. 

POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. 

The Post-office Department covers the square between Seventh 
and Eighth and E and F Streets. It is built of marble from New 
York and Maryland quarries, and the style of architecture is of the 
Corinthian order. The building cost $1,700,000. The General Post- 
office formerly occupied a building located on the site of the south 
side of the Post-office Department. It was projected by Samuel 



Blodgett, who intended the building for a large hotel. The pro- 
ceeds of a lottery were expected to pay for it. The prize ticket 
having been drawn by orphan children, who were without means 
to complete the building, it remained in an unfinished state. The 
Government purchased the building in 1810, and after the burning 
of the Capitol by the British it was occupied by Congress during 
one session. 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. 

While the office of Attorney-General is as old as the Govern- 
ment, the Department of Justice was not created until 1870. All 
law offices are combined and all the law business of the Government 
is done through this department. The department occupies a build- 
ing originally erected for the Freedman's Bank, opposite the United 
States Treasury. 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 

The Department of Agriculture is under the direction of an 
official called the Commissioner of Agriculture. The building is 
located between the Smithsonian Institution and the Washington 
Monument. The grounds are beautifully laid out in the vicinity of 
the building. This department was formerly a division of the Patent 
Office, and in 1862 Congress established the " Department of Agri- 
culture " " to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United 
States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in 
the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to pro- 
cure, propagate and distribute among the people new and valuable- 
seeds and plants." There are 1,200,000 packages of seeds and 25,000 
bulbs, vines and cuttings distributed annually. There are extensive 
buildings for experimental gardening called Plant Houses and also 
an Agricultural Museum located within the grounds. 

THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 

The Government Printing Office occupies a large building at the 
corner of North Capitol and H Streets. This is said to be the most 
complete and largest establishment of its kind in the world. The 
official in charge of this department is appointed by the President, 
and has the title of Public Printer. A vast amount of money is 

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appropriated for the maintenance of this office, the sum reaching 
nearly $3,000,000 annually. A visit to the Government Printing 
Office is full of interest. A hundred printing presses in motion, 
type-setting, folding and binding, all excite wonder and admiration. 
The department requires the best service, and a fixed standard of 
work is maintained to which all employes must conform. About 
2500 persons are employed in the various departments. 

UNITED STATES FISH PONDS 

Are located near the Washington Monument, about one-half mile 
south of the White House. The propagation of carp was begun in 
1879 under Prof. S. F. Baird. Different varieties of food and orna- 
mental fish are propagated in large numbers ; over 500,000 young 
fish are distributed yearly. A large collection of aquatic plants, 
including many varities of Nymphaeas or Water Lily, will be found 
here. 

UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 

In 1871 Congress created the United States Fish Commission, to 
investigate the causes of the decrease in our marine food fishes. 
Such rapid progress has been made in this department of the Gov- 
ernment that the United States leads the world in fish culture. The 
building occupied by the commission is on the corner of Sixth and 
B Streets, and is well worth a visit. 

GEORGETOWN. 

Georgetown, or West Washington, as it has been called since 
1880, is separated from Washington by Rock Creek. It is pictur- 
esquely located, and many fine views may be had from the Heights. 
Among the principal features of interest are Georgetown Heights, 
where many beautiful residences may be found, Oak Hill Cemetery, 
the Convent of the Visitation, the Linthicum Institute, the Peabody 
Library, the Home for Aged Women, and the Georgetown College, 
or College of the Jesuits. This college is located in the western 
part of Georgetown on an eminence. It is one of the most prominent 
Jesuit institutions in this country. Georgetown may be reached by 
the Metropolitan line of street cars, F Street, and by the Washington 
and Georgetown, Pennsylvania Avenue cars. 



SOLDIERS' HOME. 

The founding of the Soldiers' Home was largely due to Gen. 
Winfield Scott. During the war with Mexico General Scott levied on 
the City of Mexico for $300,000 pillage money. Of this amount there 
remained in the Treasury $118,791, which Congress afterward appro- 
priated to aid in the establishment of the Home. This sum was 
augmented by fines, forfeitures and stoppages against soldiers, and 
a tax of twenty-five cents (now twelve cents) a month on each private 
soldier of the regular army. At present the fund has reached the 
sum of $800,000, and the Government holds over $1,000,000 derived 
from forfeitures of pay of deserters from the army, and from money 
due deceased soldiers which has remained unclaimed. 

The main building, a white marble one, has a frontage of 200 
feet. The building is of the Norman style, and is two stories high. 
A bronze statue of General Scott, by Launt Thompson, erected in 
1874 at a cost of $18,000, is located on the brow of a hill about a 
quarter of a mile from the main building. The grounds contain 
over 500 acres of beautifully diversified hill and dale, and are cov- 
ered with about seven miles of well kept roads. A large cottage, 
located near the main building, is used during the heated term by 
the President as a summer residence. 

NATIONAL MILITARY CEMETERY. 

The National Military Cemetery is located north and adjoins the 
Soldiers' Home. It was established at the beginning of the late war, 
and contains 5153 Union and 271 Confederate dead. 

Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb 

Is situated on Kendall Green, at the end of Seventh Street, E. 
This institution, now supported by Congress, received its first start 
by a gift of a few acres of ground and a small building from Amos 
Kendall, Postmaster-General in General Jackson's Cabinet. The 
institution was incorporated in 1857, at which time Congress assumed 
its support. In 1870 the Board secured eighty-two acres of Kendall 
Green property for the institution, which now has real estate valued 
at $350,000. A collegiate department, called the National Deaf-Mute 
College, open to both sexes, is part of the institution. 

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ALEXANDRIA. 

Alexandria, originally called Bellhaven, is about six miles south 
of Washington on the Potomac. The town is one of the oldest 
settlements in the country, and has considerable historical interest 
connected with it. Braddock's expedition started from here, and in 
colonial days it rivaled Baltimore in commerce. During the war of 
1812 it fell into the hands of the British, and was held by them for 
some time. A National Cemetery containing the remains of 3635 
soldiers is located near Alexandria. Boats ply between Washing- 
ton and Alexandria every hour. The population is about 14,000. 

BLADENSBURG. 

Bladensburg is located on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, six 
miles from Washington. It received its name from Martin Bladen, 
a Lord Commissioner of Trade and Plantation. The town is an old 
one (1750) and previous to the Revolutionary War was of consider- 
able importance. The Anacostia River, upon which it is situated, 
was once navigable to the town. Bladensburg has a place in history 
as the field of the disastrous battle that took place there Aug. 24, 
1814, from which victory the British marched into Washington. The 
celebrated duelling ground is about one mile southeast of the town. 
It was the site of many bloody contests ; among the most deplorable 
vas that between Commodores Decatur and Barron in 1820, in 
,vhich Decatur was mortally wounded. 

ARLINGTON. 

Arlington, the location of the National Military Cemetery, is 
situated on the Virginia shore of the Potomac, about four miles from 
Washington. It was orignally the property of Martha Custis Wash- 
ington, the wife of Gen'l Washington, and was eventually inherited 
by the wife of Gen'l Robt. E. Lee, who resided at Arlington until 
the beginning of the late war. 

On account of a failure to pay the direct tax levied by the gov- 
ernment in 1862, the United States took possession of the property, 
and on the suggestion of Mr. Lincoln part of the estate was made a 
military cemetery. A suit was brought by a member of the Lee 
family after the war, for the recover)' of the property, in which the 










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VERNON IOMB AND MANSION. 



Government was defeated . It was finally purchased by the Govern- 
ment from George Washington Park Curtis for $150,000. Arlington 
now contains the graves of 11,915 Union soldiers. 

MT. VERNON. 

Mt. Vernon, the home of Washington, is situated on the western 
hank of the Potomac, about sixteen miles from Washington. 

In 1856 "The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union," 
was incorporated for the purpose of securing the mansion and con- 
tiguous grounds of Mt. Vernon. 

Their object is to restore the mansion and grounds as far as pos- 
sible to their original condition. Numerous relics and other remem- 
brances of Washington will be found within the building, which 
stands near the brow of a sloping hill about one hundred and twenty- 
five feet above the river. The adjacent grounds are beautifully 
wooded with choice shade trees, planted by Washington when a 
young man. 

The estate originally contained 8000 acres, but after the death of 
Washington numerous tracts were sold by his heirs from time to time, 
until now all that remains is the present farm containing two hundred 
acres. 

The tomb of Washington is located on the road leading from the 
river landing and consists of a large vault extending into a bank in 
a thickly wooded dell. It is built of brick with iron gratings, 
through which can be seen within a massive marble sarcophagus, 
containing the remains of Washington. 

ELECTRIC, CABLE AND HORSE CAR LINES. 

Columbia Railway. — From 15th and H Streets, N. E. thence 
west on H to Massachusetts Avenue, thence along Massachusetts 
Avenue to Mount Vernon Place, thence along Mount Vernon Place 
to 9th Street, thence along New York Avenue to 15th Street, N. W. 
the western terminus being the United States Treasury Depart- 
ment. 

Washington & Georgetown Railway, Main Branch. Starts 
on Bridge Street at High Street, Georgetown, Bridge Street to 20th 
Street, crossing Rock ("reek from 20th Street to Pennsylvania 
A I'enue, passing Mill's Statue of Washington, Corcoran Art Gallery, 



La Fayette Square, War Department, President's House and Treas- 
ury, along 15th Street to Pennsylvania Avenue, thence to west gate 
of the Capitol at 1st Street W., skirting the Capitol grounds on the 
B Street side, where it again strikes Pennsylvania Avenue, along 
which it extends to 8th Street, thence to Navy Yard at M Street. 

Eckington & Soldiers' Home Railway. — Main line on New 
York Avenue from 7th Street to Florida Avenue, or Boundary 
Street, thence passing the New York Avenue Passenger Station of 
the B. &O. R.R. northerly to R Street, along R Street to 3d Street east, 
along 3d Street east to T Street, along T Street to 4th Street east, 
thence along 4th Street to Catholic University and Soldiers' Home. 
Also beginning at Fifteenth and G Streets, opposite Treasury 
Department, along G Street, passing Patent Office, Interior Depart- 
ment and Pension Office to 5th Street, thence along 5th Street to 
New York Avenue, connecting with main line. . 

Belt Line. — Commencing at Maryland Avenue and 3d Street 
S. W. thence Maryland Avenue to 1st Street, along 1st Street to G 
Street, along G Street to 4th Street, along 4th Street to P Street, 
along P Street to nth Street, along nth Street to E Street, along E 
Street to 14th Street, along 14th Street to B Street southwest, along 
B Street to intersection of 12th Street and Virginia Avenue, thence 
along Virginia Avenue to C Street, thence to intersection of C 
Street and Maryland Avenue, thence along Maryland Avenue to 
place of starting (Maryland Avenue and 3d Street). 

Eleventh Street Line. — Starting at nth Street and Florida 
Avenue N. W. along nth Street to E Street, along E Street to 9th 
Street, along 9th Street to Louisiana Avenue, along Louisiana Avenue 
to 12th Street, along 12th Street to Virginia Avenue, along Virginia 
Avenue to nth Street southwest, along nth Street to Water Street, 
along Water Street to M Street, returning by the same route. 

The cars of the above named lines pass immediately in front of 
or in the near vicinity of the following places of interest: U. S. 
Capitol, Botanical Gardens, District Building, Government Printing 
Office, Pension Office, High School, all of the Theatres, Tre 
Building, President's House, State, War and Navy Building, Pano- 
rama of Gettysburg, Washington Monument, Bureau of Engraving 
and Printing, Agricultural Department, Smithsonian Institute, 
National Museum, U. S. Medical Department, U. S. Fish Commis- 
sion, Baltimore & Ohio R.R. Depot, Baltimore & Potomac R.R. 



Depot, Center Market, Mount Vernon Steamboat Wharf, Alexandria 
Ferry, Norfolk Steamers, etc. 

Anacostia Railroad starts from oth and B Streets (main line), 
along B Street, Missouri Avenue, 3d Street, Canal Street, E Street, 
4th Street, G Street, nth Street, crossing Navy Yard bridge, Nichols 
Avenue to the foot of St. Elizabeth's Hill (Government Hospital for 
the Insane). Branch line from junction at nth and M Streets S. E. 
to Water Street (Steamboat Wharves), and via 2d Street N. W. to 
junction of main line at Canal Street. Branch from junction at nth 
and G Streets, intervals of fifteen minutes via G Street, 17th Street 
and E Street to Congressional Cemetery, Workhouse and Jail. 

Metropolitan Railway. — East and west line starts at 35th 
and O Streets and runs east on O Street to 25th Street, thence north 
on 25th Street to P Street, thence east on P Street to Dupont Circle, 
from Florida Avenue south on Connecticut Avenue to H and 17th 
Streets, thence east on H Street to 14th Street, thence south on 14th 
Street to F Street, thence east on F Street to 5th Street, thence south 
on 5th Street to Louisiana Avenue, thence east on Louisiana Avenue 
to B. & O. Depot, thence east on C Street to Delaware Avenue, 
thence south on Delaware Avenue to the Capitol, thence east on B 
Street to 1st Street, thence south on 1st Street to East Capitol Street, 
thence east on East Capitol Street to Lincoln Square. 

North and south line begins on Brightwood Avenue above 
Florida Avenue, thence south on 9th Street to B Street to the 
Market House, thence on B Street to Baltimore & Potomac R.R. 
Depot, thence east on Missouri Avenue to 4^2 Street, thence south 
on 4^ Street to O Street, thence west on O Street to the Steamboat 
Wharves, also a line on Brightwood Avenue running past the 
Soldiers' Home to Brightwood. 

Seventh St. Branch starts at the Boundary and 7th St., follows 
the latter street to the Potomac River, passing North Market, Mi. 
Vernon Place, Patent and Post-Offices, and Odd Fellows' Hall. 
These cars pass the Centre Market, cross the Mall near the Smith- 
sonian Grounds and run to and upon the wharves, from which point 
ihe steamers leave for Mt. Vernon and Alexandria and other points. 
Cars every five minutes. 



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HOTELS. 

American House, corner of Penna. Avenue and ~th Street N. W. 

Ardmore, The, 516 13th Street N. W. 

Arlington, corner of Vermont Avenue and H Street N. W. 

Aston, The, 702 nth Street N. W. 

Bell, J as. W., 349 and 351 Penna. Avenue N. W. 

Belvedere, The, corner of Penna. Avenue and 3d Street N. W. 

Buckingham, The, 918 15th Street N. W. 

Cobbs, 1000 E Street N. W. 

Congressional, corner of B Street and New Jersey Avenue S. E. 

Cochran, The, corner of 14th and K Streets N. W. 

Crump, Wm. T., 828 7th Street N. W. 

Dunbarton, 623 Penna. Avenue N. W. 

Ebbitt House, corner F and 14th Streets N. W. 

Elsmere, The, 1408 H Street N. W. 

Emmett House, corner of New Jersey Avenue and C Street N. W. 

Exchange, 604 Penna. Avenue N. W. 

Faber, Louis (European), 415 9th Street N. W. 

Gillett, Jas. R., 345 Penna. Avenue N. W. 

Globe House, 1203 F Street N. W. 

Golden Eagle House, corner of New Jersey Ave. and D St. N.W. 

Gramercy, The, 825 Vermont Avenue N. W. 

Hamilton House, corner of 14th and K Streets N. W. 

Hess, Geo. H., Bennings. 

Hillman House, 226 N. Capitol. 

Hotel Arno, 16th Street, between I and K Streets N. W. 

Hotel Berlin, 338 Penna. Avenue N. W. 

Hotel Chamberlin, 825 15th Street N. W. 

Hotel Fredonia, 1321 H Street N. W. 

Hotel Hanover, corner of 3d Street and Penna. Avenue N. W. 

Hotel Johnson, corner of 13th and E Streets N. W. 

Hotel Oxford, N. W. corner of 14th St. and New York Ave. N.W. 

Hotel Slater, coiner of 2d and B Streets N. W. 

Hotel Windsor, corner of 15th Street and New York Avenue, N.W. 

Howard House, corner of Penna. Avenue and 6th Street N. W. 

Keystone Hotel, 482 Penna. Avenue N. W. 

Kolb's, 811 E Street N. W. 

Lang, John R. & Bro., 3206 M Street N. W. 

Langham, The, corner of 14th and H Streets N. W. 

La Normandie, corner of 15th and I Streets N. W. 

Lenox House, 216 4^ Street N. W. 

Lincoln, The, corner of 10th and H Streets X. VV. 

Mades, 300 Penna. Avenue N. VV. 

Metropolitan, 613 Penna. Avenue N. VV. 

Meyer's Horn, ^70 Penna. Avenue X. W. 

MONTICELLO HOUSE, 3300 M Street X. \V. 

Morgan House, 1218 32d Street, X. VV. 

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Moses, Jas. E., Brightwood. 

Mount Vernon House, 485 Penna. Avenue N. W. 

National, corner of Penna. Avenue and 6th Street N. W. 

Owen House, 1413 Penna. Avenue N. W. 

Perlie, Antoinette R. & Son, 1435 L Street N. W. 

Portland, The, 14th Street, Vermont Avenue and M Street N. W. 

Randall, The, corner of Penna. Avenue and 15th Street N. W. 

Reuter, Fritz, corner of Penna. Avenue and 4K Street N. W. 

Richmond, The, corner of 17th and H Streets N. W. 

Riggs House, corner of 15th and G Streets N. W. 

St. James, corner of Penna. Avenue and 6th Street N. W. 

Selby House, 602 Penna. Avenue N. W. 

Shoreham, The, corner of 15th and H Streets N.W. 

Syracuse House, 333 Penna. Avenue N.W. 

Temple, 604 and 606 gth Street N. W. 

Thyson House, 1501 7th Street N.W. 

Tremont House, corner of Indiana Avenue and 2d Street N. W. 

Webster House, 513 13th Street N. W. 

Welcker's, 721 to 727 15th Street N. W. 

Willard's, corner of Penna. Avenue and 14th Street N. W. 

Willows, The, Rockville Turnpike. 

Winston, The, 345 Penna. Avenue N.W. 

Woodmont, The, Iowa Circle, corner of 13th Street N. W. 

Wormley's, corner of 15th and H Streets N. W. 

PLACES OF AMUSEMENT. 

Albaugh's Grand Opera House, corner of E and 15th Streets, N.W. 
National Theatre, on E Street, between 13th and 14th Streets 

« N. W., with front on Penna. Avenue. 
Bijou, on oth Street, N. W., south of Penna. Avenue. 
Lyceum, at the corner of nth Street and Penna. Avenue N. W. 
Odd Fellows' Hall, Navy Yard, 8th Street S. E. 
Masonic Hall, corner of F and gth Streets N. W. 
Academy of Music, corner of D and 9th Streets N. W. 
Willard's Hall, F Street, between 14th and 15th Streets N. W. 
Cyclorama — Battle of Bull Run, corner of E and 15th Streets N.W, 



RATES OF FARE FOR HACKS, CABS, ETC. 

(Extract from Police Regulations.) 

BY THE HOUR. Bet. 5 a.m. and Bet 12 30a.m. 

12 30 a. in .aid 5 a.m. 

For one passenger or two passengers, for the 

first hour , $0.75 $1.00 

Fur each additional quarter of an hour or 

part thereof .20 .25 

Provided, That for multiples of one hour the 

charge shall be at the rate per hour of .75 1.00 

For three or four passengers, for the first hour 1.00 1.25 

For each additional quarter of an hour or part 

thereof .25 .35 

Provided, That for multiples of one hour the 

charge shall be at the rate per hour of 1.00 1.25 

BY THE TRIP. 

By the trip of fifteen squares or less, for each 

passenger .25 .40 

For each additional five squares or part 

thereof .10 .15 

Provided, That for multiples of fifteen squares 
the charge shall be at the rate, for each fif- 
teen squares, of .25 .40 

Provided, That in the case of a two-horse hack engaged at a 
livery stable, the proprietor or driver thereof may, by special agree- 
ment made in advance with the passenger, charge according to such 
special agreement. And Provided Further, That hacks engaged 
upon the street, drawn by two horses, and with seats for four pas- 
sengers, may charge by the hour at rates not to exceed $1.50 for the 
first hour and 25 cents for each additional one-quarter hour. In all 
cases when a hack is not engaged by the hour it shall be considered 
as being engaged by the trip. Provided Further, That a two-horse 
hack, as above, shall not be required to take less than two passengers. 
The fare to any point outside of the cities of Washington and 
Georgetown shall, in all cases, be charged by the hour or part of an 
hour, and if the hack is dismissed outside the said cities a charge of 
25 cents additional may be made. 

Each passenger shall be entitled to have conveyed, without ex- 
tra charge, one trunk or other traveling-box or bag : Provided, That 
there be no more than two trunks or other traveling-boxes or bags to 
be conveyed at any one time for the person or persons hiring the 
hack. If there be more than two trunks, traveling-boxes or bags, 
the driver shall be entitled to 25 cents for each one additional to the 
two. Each passenger shall be entitled also to have conveyed, with- 
out charge, such other small packages as can be conveniently car- 
ried within the hack, and the driver shall load and unload all baggage 
without charge. 



In case of any disagreement between the driver of a hack and 
the passenger, the same may be referred by the passenger to the 
nearest police station, whither the driver shall convey him without 
discussion or delay, and the decision of the Lieutenant of Police or 
other officer in charge of such station shall be conclusive ; and in 
case the passenger is about to leave by railroad, stage, or steamboat, 
such disagreement shall be summarily decided by the police officer 
or principal police officer on duty at the station or other place of 
departure. 

HACK STANDS. 

The following locations are designated as stands for vehicles : 

West side of 15th Street, N. W., south of the entrance to the 
Executive grounds. 

West side of 15^ Street, north of Pennsylvania Avenue. 

Space at the intersection of C and 7th Streets and Louisiana 
Avenue, N. W. 

•East side of New Jersey Avenue, near B. & O. R. R. Depot. 

North side of New York Avenue, from east side of 7th Street, W. 

South side of D Street, from nth to 12th Streets, N. W. 

Sixth Street, near Pennsylvania Avenue. 

East side of 1st Street, W, near Pease Monument. 

Southeast corner of 3d Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. 

Southeast corner of 4^ Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. 

South side of Pennsylvania Avenue, between 13th and 13^ 
Streets, N. W. 

North side of Louisiana Avenue east of 9th Street, N. W. 

North side of Louisiana Avenue, between 5th and 6th Sts., N. W. 

South side of B Street, N. W., near 7th Street, N. W. 

I Street, N. W., southwest corner McPherson Square. 

East side of 17th Street, N. W., north of Pennsylvania Avenue. 

Thomas Circle, intersection of Massachusetts and Vermont 
Avenues and M and 14th Streets, N. W. 

Iowa Circle, intersection of Vermont and Rhode Island Avenues 
and P and 13th Streets, N. W. 

North side of M Street, N. W., between Connecticut Avenue ~ 
and 18th Street, N. W. 

Northeast side of Dupont Circle, intersection of New Hampshire, 
Connecticut and Massachusetts Avenues and 19th Street, N. W. 

Southeast part of Washington Circle, intersection of Pennsyl- 
vania and New Hampshire Avenues and 23d Street, N. W. 

Scott Circle, intersection of Massachusetts and Rhode Island 
Avenues and 16th Street, N. W. 

CITY POST OFFICE. 

Louisiana Avenue S. side, near 7th Street and Pennsylvania 
Avenue, N. W. 



MONEY ORDER OFFICE. 

The Money Order Office is on the second floor of the same 
building. Open from 9 a. m. until 4 p. m. 

TELEGRAPH OFFICES. 

*Main Office, corner of 15th and F Streets. 
BRANCHES. 



*B. & O. Depot. 

314 Penna. Avenue. 

Navy Yard. 
*6i3 Penna. Ave. under Metro- 
politan Hotel. 

gth Street and Penna. Avenue. 
*General P. O. Dep't Building. 

1 2th Street Wharf. 

Willard's Hotel. 
*ArIington Hotel. 

Ebbitt House. 

Riggs House. 

14th Street and Penna. Avenue. 
*i5i8 14th Street N. W. 
*HI4 Connecticut Avenue. 



*32d and Bridge Sts. (Geo'town.) 

U. S. Capitol. 

Government Printing Office. 

Interior Department. 

Pension Office. 

Treasury Department. 

Department of Justice. 

Executive Mansion. 

State, War and Navy Dep'ts. 

Agricultural Department. 

National Museum. 

Signal Office. 

Bureau of Engraving & Print'g. 
*Wash. Loan & Trust Co. Bldg., 
9th and F Streets N. W. 



*Messenger Stations. 

CHURCHES. 

BAPTIST. 

Anacostia, Anacostia. 

Calvary, corner of 8th and H Streets N. W. 

Memorial Mission Chapel, corner of 5th and P Streets N. W. 

Kendall Mission Chapel, corner of \y\A and D Streets S. W. 

East Capitol Street, East Capitol and 4th Streets N. E. 

E Street, E Street near 6th Street N. W. 

Fifth Baptist, D Street near a, l / 2 Street S. W. 

First Baptist, corner of 16th and O Streets N. W. 

Gay Street, corner of 31st and N Streets N. W., Georgetown. 

Grace, South Carolina Avenue, 9th and D Streets S. E. 

Maryland Avenue, corner of Maryland Avenue and 14th Street N. E. 

Metropolitan, corner of A and 6th Streets N. E. 

Queenstown, Bunker Hill Road. 

Second Baptist, Virginia Avenue and 4th Street S, E. 

Tennallytown, Tennallytown. 
BAPTIST— Colored. 

Beulah, Hillsdale. 

Berean, 1121 18th Street N. W. 

Bethesda, 2728 M Street N. W. 

Bethlehem, Nichols Avenue, Hillsdale. 

Central, corner of 2d and I Streets N. E. 

Enon, C Street between 6th and 7th Streets S. E. 

First Baptist, corner of Sherman and Whitney Avenues. 

First Georgetown, corner of Dumbarton Avenue and 27th Street N. W 



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First Baptist, 15th Street extension. 

Fourth Baptist, R Street between 12th and 13th Streets N. vv . 

Israel, corner of 14th and B Streets S. E. 

Liberty, 1743 E Street N. W. 

Little Pilgrim, 212 M Street S. W. 

Macedonia, Hillsdale. 

Marshall Hall. 2 2 d Street near New York Avenue N. W 

Mt. Bethel, Wilson Street between 2d and 3d Streets N.W. 

Mt. Carmel, corner L and 4th Streets N. W. 

Mt. Horeb, 16th Street between B and C Streets N. E. 

Mt. Jezreel, 5th and E Streets S. E. 

Mt. Olive, 1x28 6th Street, N. E. 

Mt. Moriah, corner of 3d and Vant S. W. 

Mt. Vernon, Montello. 

Mt. Zion, 12th and E Streets N. E. 

Nineteenth Street, corner of 19th and I Streets N. W. 

North, Meridian Hill. 

Providence, Hillsdale. 4 

Rehoboth, 1322 1st Street S. W. 

Rock Creek, Tennallytown. 

Salem, Champlain Avenue N.W. 

Second Baptist, 3d Street between H and I Streets N. W. 

Shiloh, L Street between 16th and 17th Street N. W. 

South Washington, First, 705 6th Street S. W. 

St. Luke's, Magnolia Avenue. 

Third Baptist, 432 Franklin Street N. W. 

Union, corner of 20th and R Streets N.W. 

Vermont Avenue, Vermont Avenue between Q and R Streets N. W. 

Virginia Avenue, corner of 1st and H Streets S. W. 

White Oak Branch, 1438 Madison Avenue N. W. 

Zion, 335 F Street S. W. 

P ATHOT TC 

Church' of the Immaculate Conception, corner of 8th and N Streets N. W. 

Holy Name of Jesus, nth and K Streets N. E. 

Holy Trinity, 36th and O Streets N. W. 

St. Aloysius, N. Capitol and I Streets N.W. 

St. Ann's, Tennallytown. 

St. Dominick's, 6th and E Streets S. W. 

St. Joseph's, Second and C Streets N. E. 

St. Mary's, German, 5th Street near H Street N. W. 

St. Matthew's, corner of H and 15th Streets N. W. 

St. Patrick's, 10th Street near F Street N. W. 

St. Paul's, 15th and V Streets N. W. 

St. Peter's, 2d and C Streets S. E. 

St Stephen's, Penna. Avenue and 25th Street N. W. 

St. Theresa, Washington and Fillmore Streets, Anacostia. 
CATHOLIC— Colored. 

St Augustine's, 15th Street near M Street N. W. 
CHRISTADELPHIANS. . '„ „ A ww 

Washington Ecclesia, Monumental Hall, 113 Penna. Avenue N. W. 

Congregation of the Tabernacle, 9th Street between B Street and Virginia 
Avenue S. W. 

First Congregational, 10th and G Streets N. W. 

Mt. Pleasant, Howard Avenue. 

Fifth Congregational, corner of 8th and I Streets N. E. 
CONGREGATfONAL-CoLOREp. 

Lincoln Memorial, corner of nth and R Streets N. W. 

Plymouth, 17th and P Streets N. W. 
DISCIPLES OF CHRIST. 

Vermont Avenue Christian, Vermont Avenue near N Street N. w. 
EPISCOPAL. 

All Saints' Chapel, Bennines. 

Christ, G Street between 6lh and 7th Streets S. E. 

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Christ, corner of O and 31st Streets N. W. 

Church of the Ascension, Massachusetts Avenue and 12th Street N. W. 

Church of the Epiphany, G Street near 13th Street N. W. 

Epiphany Chapel, 1216 Maryland Avenue S. W. 

Church of the Incarnation, 12th and N Streets N. W. 

Emanuel, Anacostia. 

Grace, 1029 32d Street N. W. 

Grace, D and 9th Streets S. W. 

Holy Cross, Oregon Avenue, N. W. 

St. Alban's, Rockville Turnpike. 

St. Andrew's, corner of 14th and Corcoran Streets N. W. 

St. Andrew's Chapel, corner of Massachusetts Avenue and 18th Street, N.W. 

St. James', 8th Street near B Street N. E. 

St. John's, 16th and H Streets N. W. 

St. John's Chapel, corner of 22d Street and Virginia Avenue N. W. 

St. Stephen's, 14th Street and Kenesaw Avenue N. W. 

St. John's, corner of O Street and Potomac Avenue N. W. 

St. Mark's, A and 3d Streets S. E. 

St. Paul's, 23d Street between Penna. Avenue and I Street N. W. 

St Paul's Rock Creek, Rock Creek Church Road near Soldiers' Home. 

Trinity, corner of 3d and C Streets N. VV. 
EPISCOPAL— Colored. 

St. Luke's, corner of 15th Street and Madison Avenue N. W. 

St. Mary's Chapel (mission of St. John), 23d St. between G and H Sts. N.W. 

St. Peter's Mission Chapel, corner of 5th and Pomeroy Streets N. W. 
FRIENDS. 

Friends' Meeting, orthodox, Chapel of the Y. M. C. A., 1409 New York 
Avenue N. W. 

Friends' Meeting House, 1811 I Street N.W. 
HEBREW. 

Adas Israel Congregation, orthodox, corner of 6th and G Streets N. W. 

Washington Hebrew Congregation, H Street between H and I N.W. 
LUTHERAN. 

Church of the Reformation, corner of Penna. Avenue and 2d Street S. E. 

Concordia, corner of 20th and G Streets N. W. 

Evangelical, corner of Q and 32d Streets N. W. 

Grace, corner of 13th and Corcoran Streets N. W. 

Memorial, corner of 14th Street and Vermont Avenue N. W. 

Our Redeemer, 8th Street above Florida Avenue N. W. 

St. Johannis (German Evangelical), 318 4>a Street S. W. 

St. Mark's, 12th and C Streets S. W. 

St. Paul's (English), corner of nth and H Streets N. W. 

Trinity, corner of 4th and E Streets N.W. 

Zion's, 6th and P Streets N. W. 
METHODIST EPISCOPAL. 

Anacostia, corner of Jackson and Pierce Streets, Anacostia. 

Calvary, corner of 35th and T Streets N. W. 

Douglas Memorial Chapel, nth and H Streets N. E. 

Dumbarton Avenue, 3133 Dumbarton Avenue N. W. 

Fifteenth Street, 15th and R Streets N. W. 

Fletcher Chapel, 4th Street and New York Avenue N. W. 

Foundry, G and 14th Streets N. W. 

Fourth Street, 4th Street between South Carolina Avenue and G Street S. E. 

Gorsuch, 4*4 and L Streets S. W. 

Grace, corner of 7th and A Streets N. E. 

Grace, 9th and S Streets N. W. 

Hamline, 9th and P Streets N. W. 

Independent, nth Street between G and I Streets S. E. 

Little Falls, Canal Road. 

McKendree, Massachusetts Avenue near 9'h Street N. V. 

Metropolitan, 4% and C Streets N. W. 

Mount Zion, Tennallytown. 

North Capitol, corner of K and North Capitol. 

Ryland Chapel, corner of D and 10th Streets S. W 



Twelfth Street, 12th and E Streets S. E. 
Union Chapel, 20th Street near Penna. Avenue N.W. 
Waugh Chapel, 3d and A Streets N. E. 
Wesley Chapel, 5th and F Streets N. W. 
METHODIST EPISCOPAL— Colored. 

A. M. E. North Mission, Sherman Avenue. 

Allen's Chapel, Garfield. 

Asbury, corner of K and nth Streets N. W. 

Brightwood Mission, Brightwood. 

Campbell A. M. E., Hillsdale. 

Central, 5th Street near M Street N. W. 

East Washington Station, 14th and C Streets N. E. 

Ebenezer, corner of D and 4th Streets S. E. 

Ebenezer A. M. E., O Street near 27th Street N. W. 

Galbraith, 6th Street between L and M Streets N. W. 

Grace Chapel, Bennings Road. 

Israel, 1st and B Streets S. W. 

Israel Mission, Hillsdale. 

John Wesley's, Connecticut Avenue near L Street N.W. 

John Wesley's, 936 Boundary N. W. 

Jones' Chapel, Bennings Road. 

Memorial, Langdon. 

Metropolitan A. M. E., M Street near 15th Street N. W. 

Miles' Tabernacle, 3d Street near L Street N. W. 

Mt. Asbury, Tennallytown. 

Mt. Pisgah A. M. E., 10th and R Streets N. W. 

Mt. Sinai, North Carolina near 14th Street N. E. 

Mt. Zion, 1336 29th Street N. W. 

North Washington, cor. of Whitney Avenue and 9th Street extension N. W. 

St. Paul's Chapel, 8th Street between D and E Streets S. W. 

Simpson Chapel, Florida Avenue near Grant Avenue N. W 

Union Wesley, 23d Street near L Street N. W. 

Wesley Zion, D Street between 2d and 3d Streets S. W. 

Zion Union Mission, corner of P and 26th Streets N. W. 

Zion, corner of 10th and V Streets N. W. 
METHODIST EPISCOPAL, SOUTH. 

Emory Chapel, Brightwood. 

Grace, 7th and A Streets N. E. 

Mt. Olivet, 7 th Street, near C Street S. W. 

Mt. Vernon Place, corner of 9th and K Streets N. W. 
METHODIST PROTESTANT. 

Central, corner of 12th and M Streets N. W. 

Congress Street, 1238 31st Street N.W. 

First Methodist Protestant, corner of Virginia Avenue and 5th Street S. E. 

Mt. Tabor, corner of 35th and 3ed Streets N. W. 

North Carolina Avenue, North Carolina Avenue and B Street S. E. 

St. John's, 3d Street near K Street S. W. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 

Central Union Mission, 930 Penna. Avenue N.W. 

Whitney Ave. Union Mission, Whitney Ave. near Brightwood Ave. N. W. 

Seventh Day Adventist, 1630 14th Street N. W. 
PRESBYTERIAN. 

Assembly's, 5th and I Streets N. W. 

Bethany Chapel (branch of New York Ave. Church), 13th and C Sts. N.W. 

Central, corner of I and 3d Streets N.W. 

Church of the Covenant, Connecticut Avenue and 18th Street N. W. 

Eastern, 8th Street between F and G Streets N. E. 

Faith Chapel (branch of N. Y. Ave. Church), M St. bet. 4^ and 6th St. S.W. 

First Presbyterian, 4^ Street between C and D Streets N.W. 

Fourth Presbyterian, 9th Street between G and H Streets N.W. 

Gurley Memorial, Florida Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets N.W. 

Metropolitan, corner of 4th and B Streets S. E. 

New York Avenue, New York Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets N.W, 

North, N Street between 9th and 10th Streets N.W. 



Peck Memorial Chapel, 28th Street and Penna. Avenue N. W. 

Sixth Presbyterian, corner of 6th and C Streets S. \V. 

Unity, corner of 14th and R Streets N. W. 

Western, H Street near 19th Street N. W. 

Westminster, 7th Street near D Street S. W. 

West Street, P Street near 31st Street N. W. 
PRESBYTERIAN— Colored. 

Fifteenth Street, 15th Street between I and K Streets N. W. 
REFORMED. 

First Reformed Trinity, corner of 6th and N Streets N. W. 

Grace Reformed Church of the U, S., 15th and P Streets N. W. 
SWEDENBORGIAN. 

New Jerusalem, Dupont Circle N. W. 
UNITARIAN. 

All Souls', 14th and L Streets N. W. 
UNIVERSALIST. 

Church of Our Father, corner of 13th and L Streets N. W. 

CLUBS. 

Alibi Club, 1S06 I Street N. W. 

Analostan Boat Club, New Hampshire Avenue and 27th Street 

N. W. 
Analostan Canoe Association, New Hampshire Avenue and 27th 

Street N. W. 
Army and Navy Club, 1622 I Street N. W. 
Capital Bicycle Club, 409 15th Street N. W. 
Capital Camera Club, 401 7th Street N. W. 
Capital City Gun Club, 711 14th Street N. W. 
Catholic Club, 319 Penna. Avenue S. E. 
Columbia Athletic Club, 1732 G Street N. W. 
Concordia Club, 601 E Street N. W. 

Columbia Cycle Club, New York and New Jersey Avenues. 
Cosmos Club, 1518 ana 1520 H Street N. W. 
Down-Town Club, Washington Loan and Trust Building. 
Dumblane Club, Tennallytown. 
League of American Wheelmen (District of Columbia Division), 

1424 Penna. Avenue N. W. 
Metropolitan Club, 1700 H Street N. W. 
National Capital Press Club, 1347 Penna. Avenue N. W. 
Nationalist Club No. i, 609 F Street N. W. 
Plate Printers' Club (No. 3837), 1337 E Street N. W. 
Potomac Athletic Club. Club house, 1700 Penna. Avenue N.W. ; 

boat house, foot of 31st Street N. W. 
Single Tax Club of Washington, D. C. 
University Club, corner of 15th and I Streets N. W. 
Washington Chess, Checker and Whist Club, 121 3 F Street N.W. 
Washington City Kennel Club, 706 14th Street N.W. 
Washington Cycle Club, 1023 12th Street N. W. 
Washington Harvard Cub, meets annually, first Wednesday in 

January, at Wormley's hotel. 
Woodmont Rod and Gun Club. Club-house and Grounds in 

Washington County, Md. 



HINTS TO VISITORS. 

The first and best advice to give is — don't hurry. The attrition 
of haste spoils many an otherwise pleasant journey. To do justice 
to the many distinctive and enjoyable features of the National Cap- 
ital an extended visit is necessary. But as many tourists are pressed 
for time and yet desire to see as much as possible of the city, how 
to do this is a matter of moment. Take a carriage or hansom with 
an intelligent driver and drive through the centre of the city, em- 
bracing the central portions of Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th, 9th 
and F Streets ; afterwards through the fashionable West End. 
A drive through Connecticut Avenue from La Fayette Park to Du- 
pont Circle returning via Massachusetts Avenue, includes much of 
the "palatial section." Then by driving on 7th Street, below Penn- 
sylvania Avenue, the grounds of the "Mall" may be inspected, 
upon which are located the Smithsonian Institute, the National 
Museum, the Department of Agriculture Building, the Bureau of 
Printing and Engraving, and the Washington Monument. This ride 
will include the White House, Treasury Building, all the Depart- 
ment Buildings, and many fine churches and other objects of interest. 
This ride may be continued by including the grounds of the Capitol 
and then down East Capitol Street as far as Lincoln Square, return- 
ing by way of North Carolina and Pennsylvania Avenues. 

Do not slight the Capitol as a hasty inspection will fail to reveal 
its many wonders. The White House is open to visitors every week 
day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The department buildings are open to 
visitors from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 
are the days on which there is no charge for admission to the 
Corcoran Art Gallery ; on other days the admission is 25 cts. 
Gallery open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

Steamer for Mt. Vernon leaves wharf foot of 7th Street every 
morning at 10 a.m., returning at 3.30 p.m. Fare $1.00, including 
admission to Grounds and Mansion. 

LOCATION OF POINTS OF INTEREST. 

U. S. Capitol, Capitol Hill. 

Congressional Library, Capitol Hill. 

Executive Mansion, Pennsylvania Ave., bet. 15th and 17th Sts. 

State, War and Navy Departments, Pennsylvania Ave. and 17th St. 

Treasury Building, Pennsylvania Avenue and 15th Street. 

Post Office Department, between E and F and 7th and 8th Sts. 

Patent Office, between F and G and 7th and 9th Streets. 

General Land Office, in Patent Office. 

Interior Department, in Patent Office. 

Agricultural Department, between 12th and 14th Streets, S. W. 

Smithsonian Institution, between 7th and r2th Streets, S. W. 

National Museum, between 7th and 12th Streets, S. W. 

U. S. Coast Survey, New Jersey Ave., south of Pennsylvania Ave. 



Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 14th and B Streets, S. W. 

Department of Justice, Pennsylvania Avenue, opposite Treasury. 

Army Medical Museum, 10th Street between E and F Streets. 

Government Printing Office, H and North Capitol Streets. 

Court of Claims, 1509 Pennsylvania Avenue. 

Military Barracks, foot of 4^ Street, S. W. 

Corcoran Art Gallery, Penns)'lvania Avenue and 17th Street. 

National Board of Health, 1410 G Street. 

Government Hospital for Insane, opposite Navy Yard. 

Navy Yard, foot of 8th Street, S. E. 

U. S. Naval Hospital, Pennsylvania Avenue and gth Street, S. E. 

Soldiers' Home, 7th Street, north of Boundary Street. 

Washington Monument, Mall, south of Executive Mansion. 

Howard University, 7th, north of Boundary Street. 

Pension Office, 4th and F Streets, N. W. 

National Observatory, foot of 24th Street. 

Congressional Cemetery, 19th and E Streets, S. E. 

Botanical Garden, Pennsylvania Avenue, between 1st and 2d Streets. 

District Government Offices, 1st Street, near Indiana Avenue. 

City Post Office, Louisiana Avenue, between 6th and 7th Streets. 

Columbia Institute for Deaf and Dumb, M and Boundary Sts., N. E. 

District Courts, City Hall. 

Odd Fellows' Hall, 7th, between D and E Streets. 

Masonic Temple, 9th and F Streets. 

National Rifles' Armory, G, between 9th and 10th Streets. 

Providence Hospital, 2d and D Streets, S. E. 

Children's Hospital, W, between 12th and 13th Streets. 

Columbia Hospital for Women, Pennsylvania Ave. and 25th St. 

Freedmen's Hospital, 5th and Boundary Streets. 

Louise Home, 15th Street and Massachusetts Avenue. 

Bureau of Statistics, 407 15th Street. 

Quartermaster's Department, Pennsylvania Avenue, cor. 15th Street. 

Signal Corps, 1725 G Street. 

Navy Pay Office, 15th Street, corner New York Avenue. 

United States Pension Agency, 4th and F Streets, N. W. 

Convent of Visitation, 150035th Street. 

Marine Barracks, 8th Street, S. E. 

The Y. M. C. A., 1409-1411 New York Avenue. Educational 
Classes, Reading and Social Rooms, Library, Gymnasium, 
Reception Rooms. Visitors always welcome at the Association 
Building. 

Humane Society, 1224 F Street, N. W. 

Glenwood Cemetery, Lincoln Avenue, N. W. of Boundary. 

Graceland Cemetery, 15th and II Streets, N. E. 

Mt. Olive Cemetery, Bladensburg road. 

Oak Hill Cemetery, head of 30th Street, Georgetown. 

The House where Lincoln died, 516 10th Street, N. W 



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